Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1887-08-05
GLADSTONE.
A Voice From the Other Side-The La
krine Letters Endorsed

A Voice From the Other side-The La
Krine Letters Endorsed.
GLADSTONE, Aug. S.-[Special 8. Your
Dickinson correspondent of August I'd in
his reference to the management of Stark
county affairs and to the LaKrine letters,
does not tell the truth. The people of the
county are not satisfied and proud of our
financial condition." nor do the LaKrine
letters seem to have been suppressed by
the Mandan Pioneer, as they still appear
regularly The statement also that most
of the leading citizens of Gladstone joined
in the attempt to suppress them, is false
and an insult to our people. Three sub
stantial lies in one communication
Only few persons here were foolish
enough to be drawn into it, Rob Lee,
county commissioner here, has few men
i'll his employ, who with himself committed
that folly.
His position is quite anomalous, and
when better understood will explain the
whole thing. While the old gentleman is
considered an enterprising and industrious
citizen. yet everybody knows that, like
Horace Greeley just before his death, the
old gentlemen has come to think himself a
fit man to hold the highest Office in the gift
of the people. The Dickinson folks know
how to t1atter and fan his ambitions, and
how to secure his help, and they have a
mortgage upon his action. He represents,
In the stricteSt political sense, Dickinson.
and not Gladstone, constituencies their
and not our commissioner. A joint con-
ventlOn, held in his own town where he re-
SIDES, repudlated him and nominated Mr..
a. =: Bates for commissioner of Gladstone
district but the Dickinson convention gave
Lee his nomination and supported him
with their votes, which, with the vote, of
his employees here, elected him by ma
jority OF y, his district voting against him.
The Lakrine letters referred to made it
all county matters at Dickinson through
his help. They confused the old gentle
man, rendering him hard to control, The
powers that be in that wicked town, there
fore, undoubtedly demanded that such ac-
ton be taken here and, of course, our N?y,
sponded, and the threat to boycott the
Pioneer, was made; but the boys who
signed the threatening paper did not "cott"
it very much, as few if any, of them were
taking that paper or ever thought of taking
it, and all sensible people here laughed at
IllclI LoollollllcSs-tuu many intelligent
people in Dickinson joined in their smile
So it will be seen that the people there are
not unit with the Doodle gang, better
demonstration of which will appear at the
polls this fall. With us, they are intent on
having better government. But these.
the Chicago boOdlers, and all others. have
had occasion for gratitude ever since the
devil gave them Guiteau to put words in
their mouths, for whenever conservative
! men with their pens have punctured their
schemes and exposed their method, of
skullduggery, the convenient cry of
''cranks and soreheads" has been sounded.
! until those words of the assassin ha,r be-
come the synonym of deviltry of some sort
everywhere. Your Dickinson correspond
ent is evidence of the use of those fitting
words; but, if the idea were not prep.>ttr-
Gus, ne should hereafter cOnfine himself as
near to the truth as possible
lIakrine is fOrciDe caustic and truth
ful reporter, capable of bistering the
Scared and calous politicallsh of even a
dromedary, who may have come west.
mailed with political cuticle thicker than
the hide Of rhinOcerOs. J1I,I.